pretty pretend

today i'm listening to: the joy formidable - cradle

and the new pornographers - your hands (together)

dancing, tae-bo-ing ninjas... duh.

party.

whisk me up that dopamine-kinda-high

we can claim it as a mistake tomorrow

love me do

(you know i love you)

under my umbrella.ella.

ella.

so i've reached one of those lifey times

when those lines we draw... SPECIFICALLY to keep ourselves in check

(you know... sharpie-esque, tattooed, lines of teacher's-red-pen permanence)

become awwwfully blurry.

what's up with that?

"you call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing,"

and you're terrified somebody's

gonna stick you in a cage.

well baby, you're already in that cage,

you built it yourself.

and it's not bounded in the west by tulip, texas,

or in the east by somalialand.

it's wherever you go.

because no matter where you run,

you just end up running into yourself."

- george axelrod, breakfast at tiffany's

it's not true I had nothing on,

i had the radio on.
-marilyn monroe

take off your shoes and
make the fuck out.

ignited. you're invited...

grow wings sprouting

from the backbone.

- mark farina, dream machine

"there are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out"

mae west

anyone fancy a
good ol' fashioned yard sale?

ceiling tiles, oh my.

check out this book art by brian dettmer, book surgeon.

"i work with knives, tweezers, and surgical tools to carve one page at a time, exposing each layer while cutting around ideas and images of interest. nothing inside the book is relocated or implanted, only removed."

HOT DAMN

i went for a run this morning

i almost died.

but this day is just to good to spend in cyberland

(where we only drink.... diet coke.)

rent?... anyone?

beuller?

i'm off to fly with the birds.

xoxo. -jess

below the hurricane

today I'm listening to: danger mouse & daniele luppi - two against one

children see magic because they look for it

- christopher moore

"Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream."

— Jack Kerouac, The Lonesome Traveler

"let us run while we're young and free" - blitzen trapper

"oh baby and it HURTS SO GOOD"

show me the greats

power players.

movers.

shakers.

but shit, son.

life is SPARKLING.

because i'm on the way to taking over the world

oh geez.

ha ha.

pffff

i'm more coy than fancy.

but fortunately/unfortunately

time will tell you

i'm not a braggart

i'm a conceptualist

olly olly oxen free

"all our sweetest hours fly fastest" - virgil

"Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that’s impossible, but it’s too bad anyway."=

— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

banksy.

turn down the lights.

(and let's be fantastic.)

until then, i'm taking on the jellies

xoxo. - jess

it's a dinglehopper

today i am listening to: fiona apple - fast as you can

old school geniousity. yes please.

and

look at that

old school panache.

shake me up with a blast from the past

old. school. plane. crash.

"living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.

the moment you know how, you begin to die a little."

-agnes de mille

"a mind that is stretched by a new experience

can never go back to its old dimensions."

- oliver wendell holmes jr.

fluorescent floral

and now bring you -- words that don't exist in the english language

(but some things are just better left unsaid)

L'esprit de escalier: (french) the feeling you get

after leaving a conversation,

when you think of all the things you should have said

meraki: (greek) doing something with soul, creativity, or love.

forelsket: (norwegian) the euphoria you experience

when you are first falling in love

gigil: (filipino) the urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute

go here. <-- for the most adorable photo-shoot with the most adorable girls, by their most-adorable dad

(i dare you not to swoon...)

pena ajena: (spanish) the embarrassment you feel

watching someone else's humiliation

aka. this. whole. movie.

schadenfreude: (german) the pleasure derived from someone else's pain

age-otori: (japanese)to look worse after a haircut

with all-do respect,
i love me some justin timby

bakku-shan: (japanese) a beautiful girl.. as long as

she is being viewed from behind

desenrascanco: (portuguese) "to disentagle" yourself

out of a bad situation.. (you know. like to macgyver something)

mamihlapinatapai: (yaghan) a look between two people

that suggests an unspoken, shared desire

Cafune: (portuguese) the act of tenderly running

one's fingers through someone's hair

sgiomlaireachd (scottish gaelic)

when people interrupt you at mealtime

shlimazl: (yiddish) somebody who has nothing but bad luck

jayus: (indonesian) a joke so poorly told

and so unfunny

that one cannot help but laugh

stam: (hebrew) an agreement out of amusement and frustration that something

doesn't have a satisfactory answer among those talking

tingo: (pascuense language of easter island)

to borrow objects one by one

from a neighbor's house

until there is nothing left

backpfeifengesicht: (german) a face badly in need of a fist

eh? just a little punch?

tartle: (sottish) the act of hesitating while

introducing someone because you've forgotten their name

send me soaring, with that parachute of love

xoxo. -jess